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الجمعة، 6 مارس 2026 عند الساعة 15:00 (GMT+0)
Discovering Your Immigrant’s Origins: Digging Deeper
Learn to find your ancestor’s foreign origins in some lesser-used record sets – and in doing so, help contextualize their life in the United States.
المحتوى المقترح
Finding Your Ancestor’s Origin Story: Strategies for U.S. Immigration Research 2024
Alyssa Gamble Martinez
Stories from Ellis Island: Exploring the Immigrant Journey Through Manifests
While they may look straightforward, passenger manifests include a bounty of information about each traveler's journey to America, as well as their lives before and after arrival.In this class, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation’s Family History Center experts shed light on some of the more curious pieces of information included on arrival manifests:- Understand why certain names are crossed out and why some immigrants were detained.- Learn how stowaways were represented on manifests.- Discover what happened when babies were born at sea and steps taken when tragedy struck, and passengers died on the long voyage to the United States.- Finally be convinced that names were not changed at Ellis Island!
